Internship Project
During my 2 week internship at Philips Eindhoven, I was tasked use the embedded infralib library, a heapless C++ library for embedded systems, to control a simple robot via Bluetooth.
Dropped into C++
I didn’t have very much experience with C++ at the time. And I was dropped into their codebase, already prepacked with custom implementation details to handle the bluetooth stack of the device.
Luckily my internship mentor guided me and showed me the basics of their stack.
I learned about different code quality concepts & unit tests. They used a way of working where they first wrote the unit tests & then wrote the code to make it pass.
Eventually we created code for the robot to be controlled via bluetooth. It had a set of instructions that it could receive via bluetooth to control the motors.
Mobile App
The robot needed controls of course. Flutter was introduced earlier to me, but i didn’t have any experience with it. So i had to learn flutter on the fly.
I created a simple mobile application that could connect to the robot via bluetooth and control the motors. It had sliders to control the speed and direction of the motors.
Blog
During the time of the project, I also launched my first website with a simple blog to document my journey and learnings. Although not up to my standards today, it was a great learning experience.
Results
During my 2 week internship at Philips, I created (with help of my mentor) a system to control a robot via bluetooth. I wrote the app in flutter all by myself as no one in the office had any experience with it.
I also learned about using scrum, Git, CI/CD pipelines, unit testing and their specific software development processes.
I’m very thankful for the opportunity and guidance I received from my mentor during this period.